Left Behind: A Team’s Struggle Shows Disparity in Girls’ Sports
The revolution in girls’ sports has bypassed the nation’s cities, where cash-strapped public schools often view sports as a luxury. feeds.nytimes.com |
Dole fears keep gap year students abroad
GAP year graduates are pleading for their overseas placements to be extended to avoid returning to Britain and rising levels of youth unemployment. news.scotsman.com |
Ray Browne, 87, Founder of Pop-Culture Studies, Dies
Professor Browne presided over the somewhat unlikely, often uneasy and almost always stimulating marriage between the ivory tower and Mickey Mouse, Madonna and Michael Jackson. feeds.nytimes.com |
School Improvement Grants
Applications are now available for $3.5 billion in Title I School Improvement Grants to turn around the nation's lowest achieving public schools. ed.gov |
Crews tackle school blaze
UP TO 45 firefighters tackled a blaze which broke out at a disused school in West Lothian in the early hours of this morning. news.scotsman.com |